Membership Manager
Membership Manager provides a flexible system for managing user memberships and subscriptions within Drupal. It handles the membership lifecycle, access control, and feature entitlements, allowing for integration with external payment systems rather than managing payments directly.
Membership Manager provides a flexible system for managing user memberships
and subscriptions in Drupal. The module focuses on membership lifecycle,
access control, and feature entitlements, while deliberately staying
payment-agnostic. It works equally well for free and paid memberships,
SaaS platforms, and content-driven websites. Payments, billing, and
invoicing are left to external systems such as Drupal Commerce, Stripe,
or custom integrations.
Features
- Membership plans (free, paid, trial) as config entities
- User memberships as content entities with full lifecycle: active, pending, trial, expired, canceled
- Time-based expiration with configurable grace periods
- Cron-based expiry processing via Drupal Queue API
- Route-level access control via
_membership_activerequirement - Feature/entitlement checks per plan
- Drupal role synchronisation on activation and expiry
- Symfony lifecycle events: activated, expired, canceled, renewed
- Payment-agnostic — no hard dependency on Commerce or any billing system
- Drupal 10 and 11 compatible
Architecture
- Business logic in
MembershipManagerService - Thin controllers — lifecycle operations via POST routes with CSRF protection
- Access via
MembershipAccessCheckerandMembershipAccessControlHandler - Custom storage class with domain-specific query helpers
Access control
Protect any route by adding _membership_active: 'TRUE' to its
requirements. Scope by feature key with
_membership_active: 'feature:api_access'.
Access decisions are cacheable and respect Drupal cache contexts.
Integration
Designed to integrate with Drupal Commerce, Stripe, PayPal, ECA, Rules,
and custom SaaS backends. Call MembershipManagerService::assign()
after any successful payment event.
Use cases
- Paid or free content access
- SaaS account plans
- Membership portals
- Feature-based subscriptions
Requirements
- Drupal 10.2+ or Drupal 11
- PHP 8.2+
- User module (core)
Installation
- composer require drupal/membership_manager
- drush en membership_manager
- Visit /admin/membership to create your first plan.
Roadmap
- Views integration for membership lists
- Drupal Commerce submodule
- Drush commands for bulk operations
- REST / JSON:API support
Maintainers
Dmytro Porokhnya (darkdim)